About the book: year / The action of the novel takes place a millennium after the founding of the IV Phoenix Empire. Grandiose battles and hot single battles await you. The power of the Magomechanical legions of the Phoenix Empire will collide with the power of the entire Chain of Worlds! Steel against flesh, cold logic against hot hearts! The black phoenix will fulfill its destiny! The twilight of the gods will come and all life on many worlds of the Chain will turn to dust! From the ashes a new Lord, the Lord of Balance, will rise like a phoenix and stop the eternal battle of Order and Chaos! The story is told on behalf of the tech-priest Deus ex Machina. He will go through a long and thorny path from a simple captain of a company of battle golems of an armored infantry battalion to a legate of the Empire. Final version